Here’s what an intel chief thinks industry needs to know

By: Mark Pomerleau 

The director of the Defense Intelligence Agency had a pointed message for members of industry; whatever solution is pitched, it has to be understood in the context of how it will be used.

Like many top defense leaders giving presentations nowadays, Lt. Gen. Robert Ashely, speaking Aug. 13 at the DoDIIS conference in Omaha, Nebraska, stressed the need for industry’s help going forward to solve DIA’s tough problems.

However, solutions must not work just in the lab, but also in the operating environment military and intelligence leaders believe forces will be conducting operations in the future.

“Through my career I’ve seen too many times the technology looks great in the lab … but it doesn’t scale to the battlefield,” he said.

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